Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-21 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff 
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 21:12 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > [ adding debian-powerpc ]
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > > Niels Thykier  schrieb:
> > > > If I am to support powerpc as a realease architecture for Stretch, I
> > > > need to know that there are *active* porters behind it committed to
> > > > keeping it in the working.  People who would definitely catch such
> > > > issues long before the release.  People who file bugs / submit patches 
> > > > etc.
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832931 is about
> > > a powerpc-specific build failure of mariadb in stable. The maintainer
> > > said he can't work on it, so if anyone considers himself/herself a
> > > powerpc porter, this is something to look it.
> > 
> > Can you give a hint what exactly should be looked at?
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mariadb-10.0=powerpc=10.0.27-0%2Bdeb8u1=1473621159
> 
> > The bug did not make it clear that there is any problem left at all when 
> > I looked at it recently.
> > 
> > The last message was closing the bug.
> > 
> > There was a control command reopening the bug without giving any 
> > rationale, but the last control command was
> >   fixed 832931 10.0.27-1
> 
> For unstable, yes. The stable package is still broken.

Did any of the prospective powerpc porters have time to look into the failure?

Cheers,
Morizz

Re: ppc64el porter situation

2016-10-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen 
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:18:39PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Freescala/NXP is not even on the OpenPOWER member list - this is not the 
> old power.org

Neither is AMCC as far as I can tell.  Doesn't mean they aren't still
doing powerpc.

> For their network processors Freescala/NXP is moving away from PowerPC, 
> and their first ARM based network processors are already on the market.

That's not what they are telling their customers.  They insist they are
very much behind both arm and powerpc.

-- 
Len Sorensen